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Well…Elon Musk said AI would overtake the human race by 2025 and is more dangerous than nukes. But then again, he said my in-laws would have Internet in rural Michigan by 2020, so…

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Oh! Forgot to mention my favorite part! Had to re-read this before I got it:

"Unlike professional baseball players . . ."

LOL!

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I'm learning a *lot.* But I find, here and there, a lotta home truths from the business sphere:

"As with machine learning, the difficulty of AI does stems not from implementing the algorithm but from understanding the problem."

Seems like this is great general rule of thumb that applies in business as well as a lotta aspects of any person's life.

"However, almost all real-life implementations face time constraints,"

Wouldn't life be easier if this weren't the case. A lotta people plan as if it wasn't.

"In all cases, creating and optimizing the AI requires a lot of human judgement."

Ah, yes. And, as AI goes mainstream, I believe one-a the highest paid occupations will be going to those who can tell if an AI prediction is reasonable and fairly accurate. Because, at first, a lotta people will just wanna take whatever comes out, "because the computer 'said' it was right."

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